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Play with GIA's interactive diamond color tool to see the differences in color grades here:http://bit.ly/1713rap

This is a great tool demonstrating the slight difference in colour with white diamonds. As you can appreciate, a cost benefit needs to be determined when deciding what colour you are looking for. Given Australia is sooooo close to the equater, our natural light is always fantastic, so you dont need to be higher than F or G in colour - you will save approximately 20% just by purchasing in the G colour range.

Central banks everywhere – from Russia to the Czech Republic – are piling into Australian-dollar-denominated assets. This has limited the fall of the Australian dollar to around 3% from its peak even though commodity prices, which are strongly correlated with the Aussie dollar, have fallen globally by 10%. Even the German Bundesbank, the stodgiest of central banks, announced its intention to increase its reserve allocation of Aussie dollar assets. Is the Australian dollar, the fifth-most traded and among the most volatile of currencies, about to rival the US dollar, the yen, and the Swiss franc as one of the world’s major reserve currencies? And does this increased demand for assets created down under change the way the Reserve Bank and the Treasury conduct policy?